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Harold Symmls, .pod, writ's!, and 
musician, Jived untti \bsemite during IVie. 
first feuj qears of tin's centurij. Called 
to higher Q'erras prematurely lie left 
us tne le^acij of literarij gems here 
reproduced! 

Ql)NNARVbrORS$, one of the best 
Uouin Luropean uialercolor artists, has 
caught the verij atmosphere and spirit of 
\6semite Vallei) and the Qerra Nevada 
in his recent creations,, MrA'idforss 
exhibited in the 19 Paris Qdon and is 
sponsored bij Guslafdl, kin^ cf Sueeden« 

The message of \osemite will be found 
in these ^ms of word and color -——the 
expression of the verij soul of the Sierra. 


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ll rises heavy» shouldered fbinsl the dawn, 

A cloven mount, dark robed in dusks of ni^ht; 

Silt bowed and brooding, as if undrawn 
As yet was sleep before ihc wak’nin^ light: 
A shadowed 'dome of majesty. 
Deep-cloaked in dreams of mystery, 

11 waives and seems lo raise ib riven head 
Lrect against the deep Sferran blue; 

And for a moment now, uj|tn shadows spread, 
It halls the very sun, as if it would undo 
lie day for lake and si ream end tree, 
And fold them all in mystery,, 

All day il crouches sphinx - litre, lion shaped, 
Gray hued and bare beneath the sun, atone; 

Within its heart forever unescaped 
Qealiob the secret of thetivi'nb stone; 

Its birth, its life, its destiny 
Tombed in fbraipsouled mystery. 


A^ain it dreams against the eastern stars. 
An awful $ant shadow, upward massed. 

Grim stone enigma that no thought unbars. 
Inscrutable, unconpuerable and vast, 
Divine in dark supremacy 
Of unfathomable mystery, 

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Tut 5ridl Of The. Silvlr Mist 


Virgin of bridal beauty. 

Veiled in a bridal mist, 
Vrapped in diaphanous mantle, 
b>ij sunlight arched and kissed. 
Art thou sent down from heaven • 

1o hold a holy tryst? 

Airu, silver spjril, 

me soul of a summer cloud, 

IFou breath’st of birth celestial 
In thy waving, filmy shroud 
Tiat smays like a silken vesture. 
With <*>race and life endowed. 

but why, 0 bridal virgin. 

Is thy beauty thus out-rolled, 
Spreading thu silver treasure 
In endless fold on fold? 

Is there.some spirit bridedroom 
Vorthy thy heart to hola ? 


Down in the sylvan valley 
My lover waits for me, 

A river, strong, deep-hearted. 
Of crystalline purity, 

Vith soul that shall forever 
Uold mine in fealtu 

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Ouf-aWy time’s eeons in Ich^th 
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A riople, o soniy end then 'hoc. 

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Thij tresses o' J orbpnline mist. 

) Aods o| this ajonderjwl vole , 
Mid brothers in stream, ct' end tree, 
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Peak upon peal; uplouierin^, these mountain ^ants rise. 
Piercing uislh their summits the far cerulean spies — 
Mf^htij shouldered ’ll Ions relentlessly uptwled 
In the ^rmdih|) pack and pressure that, battling builds Iheworld. 
Will slow corroding lingers lime wears their bastions low, 
Wreathing the ^apin^ ^pshes with glands d[ her snoui. 
Carved by ice-toothed glaciers, ensculptured and embossed, 
Split byjon^of liljilmii^, by thunder uuraePed and tossed. 
Shattered, scarred and broken, Icjl desolate alone, 
ILach soveri^n ere si majestic upon its granite throne — 
ley bear eternal battle in the uiar that |aoe them birth, 
borne of earth in body, to rise abooe that earth, 
Caled to a conflict that crushes all; and yet *— 
Behold their ^rim proud faces toward heaven ever sell 

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A lake oj’ emerald grasses, 
Vind-iuinhoujcd fieaUi Hie Blue, 
Lusk and deep and 
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Yabranl, 
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luilli nodding flowers, 
. ..j_ and golden rod, 

Li'lu and cvcnini primrose — 
A garden J oro^od 0 

And all about, snoiu summits 
Mij flouncrinb mead enshrine, 

VkiiA nearer stand battalions 
0" solemn, tapering pine, 

Aue, vaunt ijour heatheri| highland 
Or praise Hie velvet lea. 


but oil 


Surpasses 


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all for me! 

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Iul Vallly Walls by Moonlight. 

Too'^rcal, too irand in fearful majesty, 

Tfic&c valby ujoSs that shut fhe heavens out. 
leu crush with heartless over=sirenyji and flout 
life pettiness d men’s mortditij; 

Immense, co lossal, vast, 

Pude mountain. strai fep upmassed. 

Vlmlbfr scarred and furrowed front 15 writ 
That life of brutal strength ujhsch knows no lam 
beyond a greater force-lbs storms that split 
¥e barl cf stone, or ledge, and crevice <knauj=» 
A tale of heartless strife 
Is world’s material life. 

So before the alUevealini \\$i\ of day 
ley stand. Dut now day fades, nil failing breath 
Day dies; and night shrouds all umh glooms of death, 
Dlots out these signs of strife in death’s kind \uatp 
And final word nou) says 
In awful silences. 

but lo, a flood of silver lucence creeps 
A-down the night and bodies forth in h$il, 

Pom source unseen, these self-same valley steeps; 
Transmutes each granite cliff to marble height, 
And purges with its kiss # 
bach ^rim stained precipice. 


lie same in missive shape and mighty line 
Aid towering form of splendent majesty 
¥eij stand, yet veiled iii tides of rayolcnj= 
Pde tides that bathe in their ethereal mine 
Lacti starru=ar rased edAp 
Each pmfi-enshadowed ledpp. 

Great spirit masses now thq ^pntli) fade, 
form on form. Mha\\ God’s world in tune 
They rest, softened, silvered,, overlaid 
Vith vestal raiments of the virgin moon; 
Drenched in a silence white 
And pure as their own li|jit. 


0 life divine! 0 soul of the finer soul! 
What if, ot last, when mMb ^reat stiadowfalis, 
loti diouldcst stand fori like yonder spirit dls, 
Ife truth cf spirit shinning thru tie corporal whole, 
In every line and dielf 
lyself and not thysdf; 


The worn stained vesture cf His world, unseen 
In the truer liAjii that, from some distant sphere, 
Shall bare the sou] from atl ib flesh terrene, 
And let, at last, in li^ht divine appear 
The deathless personality ^ 

¥ysdf, thy soul now free 
In simple spirit majesty. 

Uarold Sipimes. 


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AMaste.r Calls. 


pom the proud granite. crests of the morld, 
where winter's drift silver ja furled, 

Tie. sun grants ms beini, 

A kjy teen soul freeing — 

A water-sprite oalleijiijard nor led. 

And stral|MtDai) 1 Mher new mikhl, 

As Irace in tempestuous flight. 
Ceaselessly pourink 
A thunderous roorini „ ... 

Inat echoes thru ctay ana thru nigjnx; 

Norn oyer the Macier-cowed walls, 

from heights thal my wild soul enthralls. 

In midair outleapihk, 

Vi1h cloud mists out sweeping. 

And rainbows that halo mi) falls. 

The lush mountain meadows I lave, 
meir emerald with crystal I pa\)e, 

A 5 >,#m 5, ' r !i"4> 

I* frettiii and finrlmg 
Ineir marge with mi) white=lapping wave. 


On, on thru ex ^arn'le, - moiled Apr kc, 9 
In anker ih boulders I scourge, 
Kloiu sji'ndin^ and churnink 
lb bed al mu lurnmk 
1 ban and I leap and I 5 ur|p, 0 


Mai .spirt! impetuous,fills 
Mijujild bcin^? Vhat 4od ever wills 
Inis crashing and bounding 9 
mip endless re&pundink, 

Inat rifles ihru the ^eai |janite hills'? 


Lver doinn lo an unknown home, 
from heavens unbnouun I come 0 
Ah, rnhij this mad seelhimL 
Lternallij wreathing ^ 
Ihose yloujero of silverij fc 


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Vhij I ^9 what I am or shall be? 
tor a river thoreA naukht but the sea 0 
Some master is csflink. 

And I, over fatlioL 
Know onlij mij soul woulcrbe jreo„ 



Wild ^Vatcrs 


Like outbursl volcanic 
Of forces titanic 

Sheflings her white stormfloodfar forth on the air; 
A body stupendous, 
dome wild tiling tremendous, 
lat leaps like a beast from its h%h mountovn lair . 

In u)hile an^er breaking, 
kler drenched mane outshakin^, 
bhe roars as she pours down a thunder doud doom; 
A furious leaping, 

Uler flanks ever steeping 
W/i'lh frolh of her spray drift, enfan^ed with her spume. 

beneath, a mild boiling, 
blind sur^in^and roiling 
Mad ^lorij df power, mad |)orij of mi^ht; 
wild frenzy of forces 
fresh burst from their sources, 

Vhite blood c( the mountains in unbridled flight. 

Harold Symmes. 



LoveJt Is Day, 


A dreaming <£joti) W deepens fold on fold, 
A riven mountain heed e^einsl W ^taw, 
A lrcmbli% hdo, flesh of orrowed ^ola — 
And ctaj Uli downed in one recent flow. 

A ^Joui U dolk o dreaming, leer! iridic, 
Afia of virgin wonder, e Iremblin^ rou 
Of consciousness Ihoi some ^reoi living li'^lu 
OuUreeds Ifie ni^t end brings love's dtaip 

Itarold SijiTunes, 


lien it’s ho! for the pack 
On the dusty track 
And ho! for the roadside. rme>„ 
A son^fsr the, trail 
Through $.orke and swale,., 
Hat leads to the g/ant hills. 

Up! Storm the heights 
Vhere first dawn liints 
And vales where nothing stills 
Hie thundering call 
Of stream and fall, 

In the heart df the ^iant hills. 

breathe deep their air 
So clear and rarc,- 
breathc deep the joy thatlnrills. 
Though muscles ache. 

No sleep forsaUe = . 
Here’s strength in the ^fant hills. 


And A! the rest 
On the mountain’s crest 
Men. night the .dan fulfills* 
beneath a pine, 

Vhere,^real stars shine,. 
Asleep in the g,iant hills. 

Hen up and sin^. 

Hit rack-inalls rink 
And echo heaven fills ! 

A wild heiMAo 
Ho the vale below S . 
Life sin^s in the ^iant hills! 

Harold Sij mines. 





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SuADOVLD SDLE.NDOQ 


A reach of shadowed splendor in the silence of lire down, 
Of purity transcendent, 

UoldinJ) earth and heaven pendent 
Within ex imjstic mirror os breathless 65 the morn. 

Vision of mountain beauty, deep-shadowed, motionless, 
A jewel in granite setting, 

A soul in dream for^ettin^ 
lie purer of eoctiantment, its depths cf loveliness; 

Spirit of sleeping waters, hour libe man’s soul Ihouarl! 
Touched of earth about thee. 

Colored of life without thee, 

\bi holding lb's 4>taom of heaven within thine inner heart „ 

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When Lover Seals Vith Lover 


Oh, Ihc Lkppi) Isles, happtj sijlvan isles! 
There through leafage streaming, 

Oun^old fancies ^earnin^ 

Mih|je uiilh liio drc^mi'n^ 

Of deep, sofl shadowed beauty, on the Uappij Lies. 

Oh, Ihe mountain music of Ihe Uappij Isles! 
There cool winds ere sin^in^, 

Icalhered son|, up^LUin^in^ 

And crijslal walers flm^in^ 

Their diamond dancing launder aDoul Ihe Lkppij Isles. 

Oh love, a music calls us on loiuard life’s Uappij Isles. 
The world shall ijeild new treasure 
Of beauli) and- of pleasure —■ 

A life ,'n fullest measure — 

Vhen lover seels with lover upn Ihe Uappij Isles. 

Harold Stjirnnca. 



An expression of appreciation is due lo 
Miss. MABLL O'/MMIS for her perl in 
the preservation of these poems end for 
her generous permission to reprint them. 

Ihe artistic hand lettering in this folio 
is a contribution of MlNNLTH K4-1L.L0D Jd. 
without whose untiring efforts this publication would 
not have been possible. 



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